[Uglybob]

if it was something to do with promoting this site, id have preferred that.

[Funky Drummer]

Sorry to rant (again!), I just think that, for a change, it would be nice to do competitions for people in the target audience rather than the usual. Hardly ever hear any competitions aimed at schoolkids, they're always ones where, for some reason you have to be 18, or you ahve to be able to take time off to go somewhere, etc, etc, etc.

[Nablo.]

Good point, it's only a competion for the select few who fit the catergory they have set up.

[magenta]

It sounds like a great competition if you can enter it. : )

What sort of competitions could be done for under 18s?

[Gigglyboots]

David, I like your idea...
Hehe, oh it wouldnt stop me or a few other people I know that.

[Minnie the Minx]

Well I'm very disappointed in you all!

how can that not be cool? A prize to come to London and party with Chris, me and the team amongst showbiz guests live on Radio 1!?!?!?!

It is cool unless:

*You don't work in an office
*Your under 18
*No one else in your office likes Chris, you and the team.
*You cant get the time fo work.
*You don't want to drink woo-woos!
*You dont want to drink.

[Uglybob]

plus the majority of people working in an office enviroment would be female. im not being sexist, just stating a fact so he thinks there is more chance of there being totty there if he says office.

[Funky Drummer]

Considering Radio 1's Target Audience is 15 - 24 year olds, with many competitions of this sort (i.e. go somewhere, meet someone, etc), they're not really catering very well for a large part of them.

I hope you're taking all this on board to pass on to management, Aled......

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

i am in the target audience and work in an office but would have no desire to go down to london for an office party. most of the people i work with are old women an getting drunk with your boss isnt my idea of fun. also most people working in an office will miss most of the show every day.

i tell ya i wish i was really clever an could come up with good ideas like that.....

[phatboyspud]

I may be being dum here, but at what point did Aled state that it was a prize for a large group of people? Could it not just be for two people to come to the studios?

Again, sorry if i've missed something here

[Funky Drummer]

It was explained on the show

[Bridgie]

yeah i thinks its a great prize but im 17 so not for me.
yep now im sad

i hate listenin to all the comps where you have to be 18 and some person who doesnt even normally listen and doesnt know the rules of the game theyve been playing for weeks answers some piss easy questions and wins a good prize.

[a_girl_from_mars]

Trouble is so that most competitions Moyles does are gonna involve alcohol somehow,so your going to be have to be over 18 anyway. He isn't going to want to do something for 16 year olds as he's 28.

Also Moyles has around 6 million listeners and I'm guessing a large number of them are going to work in an office of some sort, so really the competition appeals to alot of people- just not many of the people on this board.

[phatboyspud]

Trouble is so that most competitions Moyles does are gonna involve alcohol somehow,so your going to be have to be over 18 anyway. He isn't going to want to do something for 16 year olds as he's 28.

Also Moyles has around 6 million listeners and I'm guessing a large number of them are going to work in an office of some sort, so really the competition appeals to alot of people- just not many of the people on this board.

Well said.

[Bob23]

It's annoying for me. One of the reasons I took a cushy 'work from home' job was to listen to Chris in the afternoons. Now I've done myself out of entering the competition.

Anyway, the people you normally share an office with aren't the people you want to deliberately spend your spare time with.

[Stevo_trash]

Thats not always the case, our team is full of frisky lesbians, fit posh birds, camp blokes, foreign immagrants, goths, metal goths, a 50 year old woman who is into oasis, doves etc (bar jon peel, the coolest over 50 yr old person in the uk), busty babes, surfer dudes and alcoholics.

A rather diverse group of office workers could not be found. Yet we are like a big family that makes the osbournes look tame. Gathering in the the pub across the road when we finish at 10 each week day, its seems that our characteristics are stripped to its bare bones as we get absolutely plastered every friday night.

Its a shame that I acted very twatish in the years past and have know built a minor reputation for being a wanker, one which i did earn in my youthfull student days when trying to get 'famous' on the show. Since moving to the real world, I realise how many talented people there are in the world who are much much better than you are.

I'd love to get our office team up in london, partying with the team which makes our afternoons so much more entertaining. Working 2-10 doing a rather boring job, its pleasing to know that between 3-5.45 our minds will be stimulated by the banter and features of the chris moyles show, a format which no other local or national radio station provides. During my critical student days, I would often slag of the show for using certain features. However, since working in an team based office these features have been placed in a whole new leash of life.

If only i wasn't such a hated *! I might get one of the others to apply for this wonderful experience.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Since moving to the real world, I realise how many talented people there are in the world who are much much better than you are.

this is very true but the sad thing is that most of them arent in the positions they deserve while talentless people are doin really well.

[Jonny Hoare]

Stevo have you met the rather busty lindsay jordan yet, v v v nice. However another shameless attempt to win over the hearts of moylesworld by BB aled has failed. I'd love o go drinking qwith moyles. Howver there are for me some drawbacks

1. I haven't got that many friends
2. I don't work in an office

[FAAled]

Shocking!

Not really sure which angle to take on these replies! There are a few comps aimed at over 18's, but Radio 1 teams ALWAYS state behind the scenes things like "be careful, we did an over 18's comp last month" or like sentance so we always try to balance it. More often than not if you're not 18 you can take someone who is over 18 so that we DON'T exclude the younger croud.

There aren't many reasons why you have to be over 18 (apart from maybe a film). BBC are not allowed to MAKE anyone drink so we can't say you have to be over a certain age, all we can say is there will be drink around so you'll have to take a guardian.

Plus, just because the prize may not be right for you individually since when does that make it a dull prize? Surely a dull prize would be to go big and hire a huge party with celeb guests, bands, Moyles and the team and then you plus one, or your office of 4!!! If we're going to do this then it has to be big - around 30 say.

Almost EVERY other prize week in week out on every programme is you plus one so we wanted to be different. As to the target age. I'm picking the teams I'll make sure they're very target. you won't get an office full of grannies winning. Plus an office doesn't HAVE to be an office with a watercooler in the corner and a few women filing their nails as has been suggested. We're getting requests from Call centres, bakers, supermarkets, garages, the army, airports etc. Surely if we're going to look at our 6+ million listeners a FAR larger porportion of those are going to be in said businesses than under 18's not in a team style job.

What kind of comp everyone here have liked to see? It's an end of year competition, we're the only show on Radio 1 doing it for Christmas so you can think big.

[Eddie]

Its a perfectly fine competition. I can't enter because I don't work in a team but that doesn't mean its not good, The prize is excellent. I just wont enter this time...it's not for me, but another competition in the future might be so if the mood takes me then I'll enter that instead.

[Adam]

why not just invite the whole of moylesworld down to radio one? im sure we'd all get on quiet well. would love to met a few people- see what there really like.

[phatboyspud]

why not just invite the whole of moylesworld down to radio one? im sure we'd all get on quiet well. would love to met a few people- see what there really like.

Yes, that sounds like a great COMPETITION.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

its inherently crap because you have to go to london village anyway. it may shock some people in radio one but places outside of london do count (not just leeds).

[FAAled]

its inherently crap because you have to go to london village anyway. it may shock some people in radio one but places outside of london do count (not just leeds).

Why is it "inherently crap?" when Chris is in London? Chris is tied to his TV show which is also on that day so we can't venture out of London. That's what the Coach is arranged for. If Radio 1 were shocked that there are places outside London then the comp would say get the tube to the party!

The main presenter is from Leeds and I'm from Wales. I think you're speaking to the wrong team if you want to complain about London only thinking!

[Sidders]

It's a good prize. It's just that most of us messageboarders are excluded. We're all bitter and twisted human beings here at Moylesworld.